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New York, NY- After much deliberation and discussion, the World Health Organization (WHO) has officially added “bless their heart” as an ICD-10 diagnosis code. A WHO spokesperson was reached to comment on the newest ICD-10 code.

“Well, we felt it was inevitable that this would eventually be recognized as a diagnosis. We think that this code will be heavily used in the south east United States. Southerners like to use this phrase often and insomuch that it has a dual meaning! Of course, we appropriately gave a separate diagnosis code to reflect that. For instance, instead of assigning a patient a diagnosis of ‘disorientation, unspecified’; R41.0, we can now use ‘bless their heart’ which is a new diagnosis code. It works great when we did a chart review and the physician used it to describe a patient who was disorientated. The physician put “Diagnosis 2: bless her heart; secondary to delirium…”

When discussing this further with Dr. Al Koholik, a psychiatrist, he stated that “I think this new diagnosis code is ground breaking! Especially in patients of mine that are suffering from grief in the form of loss of a loved one or dealing with adversity. Too often I find myself using F43.20; adjustment disorder, unspecified… I just find that it is not doing my patients justice! By using “bless their heart” as a specific diagnosis code, both my colleagues and I understand the patient’s struggles.

We predict that with a breakthrough such as this; having a disease that has duality and two diagnosis codes, will improve patient care.

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A retired gladiator and pupil of Galen, the Italian Stallion’s claim to fame was performing the successful lipoma removal using nothing more than a gladius. Hailing from the southern regions of Italy, Italian Stallion finds verbal language a waste of time and communicates best with his hands. Although weary of combat, he still finds time to take up arms against high a1cs, hypertension and hyperlipidemia. In his spare time he can be found weight lifting, playing video games or playing cards.
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